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The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Samoa. The avifauna of Samoa include a total of 100 species, of which 9 are endemic , and 5 have been introduced by humans and 23 are rare or accidental. 13 species are globally threatened.
Positioned on Broadway, in Manhattan, New York City, is the Charging Bull Statue, also called the Bull of Wall Street. The 7,100-pound bronze sculpture is 11 feet high and 16 feet long.
The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), also known as the manumea, is a large pigeon found only in Samoa.It is the only living species of genus Didunculus.A related extinct species, the Tongan tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus placopedetes), is only known from subfossil remains in several archeological sites in Tonga.
The avifauna of American Samoa include a total of 76 species as of 2023, according to Bird Checklists of the World. [1] Of them, 15 are rare or accidental, four have been introduced by humans, and one, the mao, is extirpated. American Samoa has no endemic bird species but several near-endemics occur and many of the land birds occur in good ...
Pages in category "Fauna of Samoa" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .
Image credits: AnimalAnticsNewsflare Many of those who scroll through such pictures eventually want to join the contributors themselves. According to some estimates, approximately 7 million ...
2020 American Samoa quarter featuring the Samoa flying fox. In 2018, the U.S. Mint had several candidate designs developed for the 2020 National Park of American Samoa quarter for the America the Beautiful series. One of the designs features the familiar image of George Washington by John Flanagan, used on the quarter (heads) since 1932. The ...